What Happened?

05 November 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck the house of a Abu Hamza Rabia in the Musakki area (outside Mir Ali) in North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan.

Rabia was an Al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin, widely considered to be Al-Qaeda’s third-in-command. Rabia was only injured in this attack, but his wife and at least three children, all daughters, were killed.

Nasir Dawar, an eyewitness and TV reporter said: “I grabbed my Kalashnikov, because I thought somebody fired a rocket at my house… There was nothing left but body parts, and a kid lying under some bricks.”

It is believed that all victims in this attack were civilians.

Source: AP, New Yorker, Dawn.

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